Weekly Garden Thread - October 2-8, 2021

October 2, 2021 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[Diana in Wisconsin]

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Finally picked up my fig tree this morning. It's about 4 feet tall and I don't really want it to get much taller so I'm hoping all of the little knobs I see running down the trunk will start sprouting branches and grow out.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Happy Fall and thank you!

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It is a very nice looking Tree! It looks like a Violette de Bordeaux Variety if the tag is an accurate representation of the fruit. Good looking Choice!

[Qiviut]

I thought all the hummingbirds had migrated ..... but I did see one on the feeder around sunset last night .... a pleasant surprise! It was a LOT smaller than this "humdinger"! :-)

Ithaca ... is that you??

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks, Pete!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

She’s a BEAUTY, and will be VERY happy living on your sunny patio. :)

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Good Morning! :-)

[LibWhacker]

Flowers grow straight from the trunk of a Judas Tree

When they were young

[daniel1212]

Thank you for the ping. With the summer July thru Sept.) being the most rainy and overcast I can recall, growth and harvest was late, but I picked over 200 cherry tomatoes this week, more than just about any week previous. Thank God for the late harvest! While the tomato plants are petering out as usual and temps now can get down to the 40's at night,yet the butternut squash which has taken over the garden (though only about 8 plants were put in) continue to grow, praise God. Hoping for a full month of harvest before the first frost.

I put about 10 cherry toms in 5oz cups (about 3 cents a piece from Walmart) for distribution. Thank God.

[MomwithHope]

Morning All! It was pawpaw harvest this week. Two pics. Beats what I got last year - only 4 pawpaws. I have read up more about pruning this year and found about 9 new tree shoots coming up from behind the trees I have. Also next year I will find some horse manure to put at the base of my trees to draw flies, as that is what pollinates. I had over 80 flowers and hand pollinated what I could reach. Froze some pulp (will keep for a year) and enjoyed the rest atop some good vanilla ice cream. Yummy!
The garlic seeds that dropped after harvest are already almost a foot tall. I have cloves to plant and got 2 bags of cypress mulch. Kind of taking the weekend off.
Still getting broccoli, chinese long beans (still bearing and flowering), raspberries, basil, parsley and have not tipped my big potato tub yet. Dug a few small ones for some soup last week. The tops are still green. It's been a great garden year with some really nice surprises. Next year will be even better. Also started new radishes and romaine lettuce in one of those long planters, already up, will probably keep it in there are it is very near the house.

Warning here's a slide - Diana here's how the new bedroom floor turned out we love it, it's that Teragren Synergy bamboo. We have it in 2 other rooms from 12 years ago and it looks just as new as this.

Also finished up a capicola and started another one. Takes at least 7 weeks. Enjoying it immensely with some homemade cheese and dried tomatoes.

And last but not least this is my second batch of italian sausage from a pork shoulder got 21 the first time and 26 this time. Natural casings. I am still on low carb high protein and doing really well on it.

[KC Burke]

I’m in the process of buying a house in North Carolina with four fig trees. I have been told I can harvest them and have yet to research how to handle that and what to make of them. Never had figs before.

[MomwithHope]

Love your pictures! It is a beautiful garden. Looks like bno room for any weeds.

[MomwithHope]

That is an amazing picture of the Judas tree.

[Bon of Babble]

We are getting roller coaster weather in Southern California n - days of 90 degree weather followed by 70 degree weather for a few days, then back to 90 degree weather. Typical for this time of year. Garden is looking a little shaggy at the moment...

Made the mistake of planting this:

Knowing they are invasive - I had to pull it out of my orange trees and roses - not an easy job.

Now, how can I get rid of it??

Happy Gardening!

[Bon of Babble]

Love those paw-paws! My dad spoke highly of them - they don’t grow where I live but I can grow cherimoya which is a paw paw relative. We had several trees at my workplace and harvested those every year - they were SO good.

I will plant a tree this year - wish I’d done it years ago.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Ithaca says, he's innocent. THIS time. ;)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!